SAN FRANCISCO - On June 30, 1971 - the day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that newspapers could continue publishing the top ...

LOS ANGELES - In 1999, a political reform group looked around California and saw influence-peddling everywhere - from Irvine, ...

LOS ANGELES - Reports that the problem-plagued MacLaren Children's Center in El Monte may soon close to settle a federal class...

COSTA MESA - Memorial services took place Saturday for Seth Cochran Thompson, a lawyer with Orange County's McCormick, Kidman ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Non-California residents who pay extra to attend public colleges and universities here probably shouldn't coun...

Forum Column - By Nausheen Hassan - Gov. Gray Davis cannot usurp the liberty of deserving inmates, especially battered women w...

Forum Column - By Geoffrey L. Garfield - Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world, a glamorous place where American...

PALO ALTO - Two Supreme Court justices traveled back in time at Stanford University last weekend to redecide a case that shape...

SANTA ROSA - When retired Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Gayle Guynup decided to become an assigned judge after retirement...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Paul J. Killion and Kate Cutler - With increasing frequency, California insureds are turning...

WASHINGTON - Federal grand juries in Maryland and Virginia have opened cases on the deadly sniper shootings plaguing the metro...

Column by Garry Abrams - In Los Angeles, the politics of law enforcement is almost always entertaining, educational and, not i...

PALO ALTO - FBI Director Robert Mueller confessed surprise at being awarded Stanford Law School's Jackson H. Ralston award for...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County Superior Court has selected three new commissioners to join the bench. Lori Hunt Kennedy, 35, for...

SAN JOSE - The media and the court each have "integral roles to play that are fundamental to the protection of the public and ...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has rejected a convicted rapist's novel attempt to force prosecutors to allow him to plead...

LOS ANGELES - After weeks of confusion, Pallotta TeamWorks, the controversial for-profit fund-raising firm behind AIDS and bre...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s bankruptcy Monday approved the hiring of a Los Angeles law...

SAN FRANCISCO - The source of a bond paid to secure the release of a former school district manager charged in a conspiracy to...

SAN DIEGO - Bertrand de Villiers, whose brother died from an overdose of a powerful painkiller, testified Monday that three da...

PALO ALTO - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Diane Northway is not the sort of jurist who banters with attorneys or tri...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's attorneys on Monday asked the state Supreme Court either to grant the actor bail or to order the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Briscoe's first memory of San Francisco's oldest restaurant, Tadich Grill, dates to August 1953, when San...

Forum Column - By Jim Preis - The ink had barely dried on the Governor's signature making AB1421 law when the Los Angeles Coun...

RIVERSIDE - Judge Douglas P. Miller has been elected as the new presiding judge of Riverside County Superior Court. ...

LOS ANGELES - The makers of a 16-hour Elvis documentary just checked into Heartbreak Hotel. Passport International Productions...

WASHINGTON - In its lone grant of review Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to consider the constitutionality of a federal proce...

Focus Column - International Law - By Veronika Albus and Peter Denwood - There has been a great deal of publicity about the Sa...

Mark Saxon has left Newport Beach's Saxon, Barry, Gardner & Kincannon, a firm he helped establish in 1979, to join Gordon ...

The Ventura County office of JAMS, a private alternative dispute resolution provider, added two neutrals Oct. 7, Judge Melinda...